Originally Posted by FWAAA

I'm not just insinuating - I'm confidently asserting.

Please don't take offense, as none was intended. What I see (as former military myself) is that too many of the screeners issue orders to passengers like Sgt Carter screaming to Gomer. THAT's the big problem. Military officers have perfected issuing orders - and that's what we have at the TSA right now. The top issues orders and each level of command re-issues orders. Finally, we get the screeners yelling orders at us. It's one thing to bark orders at subordinates. It's quite another to bark orders at non-subordinates and then to turn around and whine about the lack of respect from the abused passengers.

You mentioned in an earlier post that you "visit airports often" but that you don't travel as much as some here. Ever been to the UK? Other cities in Europe? Tokyo? Singapore? Chile? Agentina? Brazil?

In none of those countries have I encountered airport screeners acting like they do here. They're quiet, unobtrusive, and almost apologetic when they have to conduct any sort of secondary screening. And I've never seen anything that looks like the retaliatory secondary screenings conducted by the TSA.

Your expertise is in control. Command and control. I didn't insinuate that you'd treat people unfairly. I'm very confident you'd treat people the way the current batch of ex-miltary, ex-cops, ex-prison guards currently treat us. They don't treat us "unfairly." They treat us poorly far too often. And that we don't need.